D wight allen



252. COMPOSITIONS.

CUQ8TITUTEU FOR TORN COPY UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

DWIGHT ALLEN, OF LEMARS, IOXVA, ASSIGNOR TO THE THAT MANUFAC- TURINGCOMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SOFT SOAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 501,036, dated July 4,1893.

Application filed September 23, 1892. Serial No. 446,694. (Nospecimens.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, DWIGHTALLEN, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Lemars, in the county of Plymouth and State ofIowa, have invented a new and useful Soft Soap, of which the followingis a specification.

My object is to provide a soap specially adapted and always ready to beadvantageously used for washing clothing and textile fabrics of everykind, cleaning house, cleaning and polishing painted and varnishedfurniture, carriages, &c., and also for removing grease and tar from apersons hands and for washing and bathing children and for gen- 15 eraluse in a family for cleansing purposes.

My invention and composition consists of the following ingredientscombined approximately in proportions as followsz-eight (8) pounds ofwhite hard soap, comminuted or 20 chipped, eight (8) pounds of carbonateof soda (sal-soda), two (2) ounces of pulverized borax, thirty (30)grains of chlorate of soda, one (1) dram of concentrated lye, twelve(12) gallons of water. All the ingredients are mixed and boiled in thewater and when cool it will be a white translucent soft soap ready toplace in wooden buckets or other suitable vessels adapted for placingthe soap upon the market as an article of merchandise thatcan be readilyhandled and used as required for the various purposes for which it isadapted.

I am aware that all the ingredients of my composition have heretoforebeen used in making soap but not in the manner and proportions that Ihave combined them to produce a soft white soap adapted for toilet useand the various other purposes mentioned.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is-

The herein described composition of matter adapted to be used as a softsoap, consisting of hard soap, carbonate of soda, borax, chlorate ofsoda, concentrated lye and water, in about the proportions specified.

DWIGHT ALLEN.

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